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Fogtown

A Novel

A Novel

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

By Peter Plate

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Paperback $13.00

Jun 01, 2004 | ISBN 9781583226391

Ebook $10.99

Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781609802165

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    About Fogtown

    One foggy day in San Francisco brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyperliterate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armored car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate uses a loving hand to carve his characters out of hallucination, perversity, and tenacity. Plate’s noir sensibility gives him special fluency with the weary souls of urban America’s down and out; Fogtown describes a new age unmistakably built on the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski.

    About Fogtown

    One foggy day in San Francisco brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyperliterate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armored car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate uses a loving hand to carve his characters out of hallucination, perversity, and tenacity. Plate’s noir sensibility gives him special fluency with the weary souls of urban America’s down and out; Fogtown describes a new age unmistakably built on the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski.

    Also by Peter Plate

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    Also by Peter Plate

    Night of the Short Eyes
    With Death Laughing
    Dirty in Cashmere
    Elegy Written on a Crowded Street
    Soon the Rest Will Fall
    See all books by Peter Plate

    About Peter Plate

    Named Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004, PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through… More about Peter Plate

    About Peter Plate

    Named Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004, PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through… More about Peter Plate

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels

    Paperback | $13.00
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jun 01, 2004 | 168 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781583226391

    Category: Literary Fiction | Noir Novels

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 168 Pages | ISBN 9781609802165

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    Praise

    “If Restif had transmuted his peripatetic Parisian musings into suspense fiction, the result might well have resembled Peter Plate’s muckraking, gritty take on the fellahin-strewn streets of Fogtown.” –Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart


    “[Plate’s] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squad car, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.” –San Francisco Chronicle

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